| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Comparative Literature (X) |
Neurosciences now ask some of the same profound questions posed by writers, artists and philosophers for centuries, thus opening surprising perspectives on memory and morality, dreams and perception, identity and agency. This course explores this emerging concordance.
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A survey of European literature. Classical and medieval literature from Homer to Dante.
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A survey of European literature. Renaissance and Neoclassical literature from Petrarch to Diderot.
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A survey of European literature. Romantic and modern literature from Rousseau to Solzhenitsyn.
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Seminar course for honors students enrolled in Comparative Literature 30 designed to enrich the large lecture experience and to supplement the weekly seminar meetings. May include additional readings, more intensive study of syllabus selections, and supplemental writings.
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An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Asia through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on East, South, and SoutheastAsia varies.
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An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of the Middle East through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia varies.
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An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Africa through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North, West, East, Central, and South Africa varies.
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An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of the Americas through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America varies.
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Description and analysis of decisive events contributing to the world we are inhabiting. Various themes presented: City planning, war and industrial warfare, technology and media-technology, ideologies of modernity, and modern master theories.
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What do literature and critical theory contribute to the reflection on human rights and the analysis of their violation? Inquiry into different ways in which the humanities can reframe the debate on human rights and act as a social force.
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Addresses questions of methodology and also developments and debates in the history of literary and critical theory.
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Writers have also something to say about literature: What is it? How do they write it? How are we to read it? What does it mean? What tools do they provide us to analyze it?
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Investigates reappearance of the letter-novel at particular historical moments, and paradoxes built into the letter-form itself. Range of works emphasizing eighteenth- and later twentieth-century novels, likely works by Austen, Goethe, Hoffman, James, Montesquieu, Choderlos de Laclos, Lydia Davis, Pynchon.
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Focuses on fictional and non-fictional texts written by women during two periods of intense social and feminist activism, the 1790s in England, France, and the West Indies, and the 1960s in the U.S. and France.
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The impact of the voyages of discovery on late 15th and 16th century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages: Columbus, Cartier, Lery, More, Rabelais, Montaigne.
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An interdisciplinary inquiry into the motive of game in 18th-20th century literature. Focus is on the moral, psychological and epistemological dimensions of game according to both form and function. Considerations of the stylistic, narrative and rhetorical components of texts.
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Explores dreams and dreaming in multiple historical and cultural contexts and pays particular attention to dreams and dream reports as unconscious and intra-psychic as well as social and cultural communications. A variety of historical, ethnographic, psychoanalytic, and literary texts are considered.
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How do individuals, communities, cultures, nations remember and/or forget, preserve and/or erase, traumatic events?
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Broad survey of folk tales from all over the world. Types, motifs, research, and history.
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Roots: Romantic tendencies as they emerge against the backdrop of the eighteenth century, the Middle Ages, and antiquity.
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Cultivation: Romantic literature and science in their manifold relation to nature.
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Topic to be addressed each quarter will be chosen from the following: origins of psychoanalysis; sado-masochism; the death-drive; psychoanalysis and the law; group psychology; psychoanalysis and the media; literature andpsychoanalysis.
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Arthurian and chivalric fiction from the medieval period to the time of Cervantes. The evolution of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the rise of new chivalric heroes and modes of fiction.
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Focus on the idea of heroes and heroism in the Western tradition through readings of the three major epics of Greek and Latin Antiquity (the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid), along with selections from modern variations on these old stories.
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